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...certainly do have, in this period of prosperity, adequate resources to provide basic health care services to all members of society. However, the current rhetoric skewers those plans that use health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as the model of affordable health care. We will never reach a viable health plan if we insist on the best health care that money can buy for everyone; medical science will always provide newer, more expensive, and more effective treatments for those with the money...
...United States is one of the most prosperous nations in the world, but every year 45 million of its people and 11 million of its children are left uninsured for basic medical needs. Money earmarked by Congress for state allocation to children's insurance is left untouched. HMOs cut costs by denying clients potentially life-saving tests and treatment. Home to the world's most cutting-edge advances in medical research, the vast majority in our country will never access such advanced biomedical technology...
...proposed to channel $60 billion into Medicare over 10 years, which will primarily go towards tax credits of up to $2,000 for the uninsured. Under Bush's plan, people would be encouraged to use their tax credits to shop between managed care providers, usually multi-state HMOs, increasing competition and consumer choice...
...Medicare. He recently criticized 1997 cutbacks to Medicare and indicated his support for elevating Medicare funding to $339 billion. Yet Bush's and Gore's proposals are not as different as they first appear. Both are advocating centralized health care providers; Bush in the private sphere with multi-state HMOs, Gore in the public, with state-backed Medicare. Properly administered, centralized health care offers many advantages, most important of which is the ease in which standards can be enforced...
...Medicare, but critics say the experiences of that younger, healthier government work force have little to do with those of the elderly. Many of the elderly have not been happy either with how managed care has treated them so far. They have become increasingly disillusioned by the HMOs' cutbacks in drug benefits and by their rising premiums and co-payments...